on our own

Well, Brecken and I are all on our own this week. Josh left at 4:30 this morning for the Teton Science School in Jackson for the week with the 8th graders from his school. Hopefully they will have fun and hopfully Friday will get here soon!

all grown up.

My little boy is all grown up. He sat in the shopping cart at the store today instead of in his car seat in the basket. I kind of had to hold him because he kept wanting to turn around and see what I was putting in the cart, and he's not steady enough to turn and sit at the same time yet. :)

7 months old

Wow, has it been a while since I've updated this! Brecken is now 7 months old and hilarious. He jabbers and jabbers and I'd give a million dollars to know what he's talking about. No recognizable words yet but as much as he's talking, it shouldn't be too long! (even though I said that about the teeth, and we have yet to see one still!) He still laughs and giggles at the dogs and loves petting the cat, too. I took him to get weighed this afternoon and he is 15 pounds, 2 ounces. One more pound in one month. Way to go, Champ! I'm sure once he starts eating "real" food, too, he'll start packing on the pounds. Right now, he gets a piece of food to his lips and immediately starts gagging. Silly boy, he doesn't even know what the food is before he decides to start gagging! The only "big person" food he will eat is graham crackers. LOVES those and makes a big mess.

Josh has started his Intermediate EMT class so he's now gone two nights a week to Rawlins. I have to admit, I'm glad this class is in the spring and summer (through June), because last time he traveled for an EMT class, we lived in Lingle, and he had that terrible roll-over accident. This time the weather is nicer (knock on wood...) and he's carpooling with another EMT, so that makes me feel better. :)

I think my boy is finally asleep, so I am going to go to bed too!!

another contest

I entered the below picture into another contest. If you have a moment, vote for us!

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just have to brag...

Brecken and his cousin Ryan went to an Easter Egg hunt on Saturday. Afterwards, they checked out what was in their Easter baskets. (And yes- Brecken is sitting all on his own! He learned how to do that on Friday night!)

goopy eyes

I guess Josh called Dr. Jake this morning- the past couple mornings, B hasn't been able to open his eyes from all the goop that was seeping out of them. He LITERALLY couldn't open his right eye this morning until we cleared it all off with a washcloth (which B hated) so Josh called Jake and asked if it was still his cold and Jake said "enough of this- let's get him on meds." So now he's on 10 days of antibiotics. Hopefully that will get rid of whatever ear infection he still has left, too. The poor kid looks like he was in a fight- with one eye not open all the way!!

boy, was it funny.

You should've seen and heard my little boy on Wednesday night. The dogs wanted to play ball, so Birdie would put the ball in my lap while I was holding Brecken. I'd pick up the ball and have Brecken "help" me throw it. The dogs would go running, and Brecken would burst into the giggles. We played like this for probably 20 minutes. Birdie sometimes would sit right in front of Brecken and NOT give the ball, and Brecken would laugh and try to grab it out of Birdie's mouth. Our dog Hogan is famous for getting the ball and then laying down with it, and growing very loud when Birdie tries to get it to bring to me to play. It's Hogan's "game". He was doing this that night too, so I'd call, "Hogan, Hogan!" Brecken would just laugh. So I called, "Birdie!" and he didn't laugh. Something about the name Hogan must be funny!

The poor boy had to spend a lot of time at school this week, as Josh and I both had parent/teacher conferences Tuesday and Thursday nights until 8:00. Josh brought him with him on Tuesday night and B did so well. He sat in his Bumbo and watched his Baby Einstein DVDs, ate some dinner, grinned at people, had a great time. Yesterday he came with me, and did not have fun at all. He cried most of the night. Good thing I only saw one parent last night, and that was while one of our other teachers just happened to have taken B from me so I was able to sit down and eat some dinner!

I have a school work day today, but Josh does not, so B and Josh are hanging out today. Josh has a test this afternoon so he can take the Advanced Intermediate class for his EMT stuff, so I'll go pick B up and go to Walcott Jct. to meet Jeffrey to pass on some stuff as he goes to Lingle for Easter. My sister and brother-in-law and nephew are coming tonight to spend Easter weekend with us. My mom and dad went to San Diego for Easter so my dad could take a class. How fun- I'm jealous!!

vote for Brecken!

I entered Brecken in a cute baby contest on Shutterfly. Vote for B!!

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croup.

Brecken caught a bit of the croup this weekend so he's been miserable-crying at the top of his lungs and you can still hardly hear him. I feel so bad for him. It got bad enough that we called the doctor on call yesterday (who happened to be Dr. Jake) and took him in to the clinic where he ended up getting a nebulizer treatment and then the machine sent home with us to do every 6 hours. He hates it and cries, but maybe crying will make him breathe in the nebulizer air better. It's a little oxygen mask that we just hold in front of his face and he gets really mad when he turns his head and you move with it! The poor boy. I hope it goes away soon- his cough scares the living daylights out of me. His daycare person today is Dr. Jake's wife, and she herself is a labor and delivery nurse. So it makes me feel better knowing he's probably in better care at their house than he is at ours! Brecken's ear infection is back with this croup, and Jake looked at it again this morning when Josh dropped Brecken off at their house. He said we'll keep an eye on it this week and if it doesn't get better when the illness goes away, we'll start antibiotics. But for now we'll just keep an eye on it to make sure it gets better, not worse.

Brecken was breathing a tad bit better this morning and was smiling a little more, so maybe the worst is over.